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Jaydee finds a unicorn in the garden one day. But will Mummy and Daddy believe her?!
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Leah, Emmie and Tim are going trick-or-treating... but they don't count on encountering some spooky Halloween cats!
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One day Mr Barry decides to throw out his old sofa, Darla. But before he knows it, a whole community of friends pops up!
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The people of Hamelin are happy. Until one day, a horde of multicoloured butterflies descend upon the town.
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Koah Koala is having his first birthday! He's about to discover how fun it is to be One!
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Veronica Peach loves crazy hats, silly voices and BOOKS! One day, she decides to ride around town on her flashy racing bike, reading stories to children.
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Baxter the Puppy loses his beloved Oliver in Paris. He will have to follow his nose to find him!
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Making friends is pretty hard for a friendly shark with a toothy smile. But he's going to try!
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A story about the beauty and love your special light can bring to others, and how it spreads from one person to everyone!
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Scowly Puss feels bored and blue.
Luckily Antony the Ant appears, to tell him what to do!
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Ou Ou wants to make new friends, but everyone thinks his quills are too sharp. Will he be able to overcome their rejection?
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Short Stories for Children
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The Three Little Pigs Winnie The Pooh The Velveteen Rabbit Jack and the Beanstalk The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Elves and the Shoemaker The Bogey-Beast Little Red Riding Hood My Father's Dragon St. George and the Dragon Snow White Cinderella Rikki Tikki Tavi The Tortoise and the Hare The Gingerbread Man The Little Thief in the Pantry The Ugly Duckling Thumbelina The Bremen Town Musicians Alice's Adventures Under Ground - A shortened version of the original story The Ant and the Grasshopper Aesop's Fables The Reluctant Dragon The Emperor's New Clothes The Princess and the Pea Hans Christian Andersen Rapunzel The Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Five Little Pigs Old Mother Goose and Her Son Jack Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Grimm's Fairy Tales Hansel and Gretel The Little Mermaid The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle Father Frost The Snow Queen How the Moon Became Beautiful Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Paradise of Children The Little Match Girl Cousin Tribulation's Story The Pied Piper of Hamelin Huckleberry Carl Sandburg, Rootabaga Stories The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Hindu Tale: The Magic Pitcher Just So Stories This Land Is Your Land The Tale of Johnny Town Mouse Goldilocks and the Three Bears Little-Girl-Afraid-of-a-Dog The Little Red Hen Little Bo-Peep The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids The Three Billy-Goats Gruff This Old Man The Two Sisters A Little Tiny Thing The Cunning Little Tailor The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Androclus and the Lion The Night Moth With a Crooked Feeler Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves East of the Sun and West of the Moon Bruce and the Spider How Jack Went Out to Seek His Fortune The Adventures of Aladdin Henny-Penny: The Sky is Falling! The Fisherman and his Wife Briar-Rose, or Sleeping Beauty Matsuo Basho Haikus The Forest Bride: The Story of a Little Mouse Who Was a Princess The Selfish Giant The Happy Prince The Blind Men and the Elephant The Sagacious Monkey and the Boar The Farmer and the Badger Hinky Pinkie Riddles Children's Stories: Mother Bear's Call The Wind in the Willows The Last Dream of Old Oak Soup on a Sausage Peg, Andersen's story akin to 'Stone Soup' The Rover Boys: Fun on the Ice How They Ran Away The Golden Touch Pegasus, The Winged Horse How Theseus Slays the Minotaur The Great Stone Face The Golden Windows The Dragon's Teeth The Coming of the King The Great Feast The Marsh King's Daughter The Sea-Maiden The Story of Little Boy Blue Mother Earth's Children, Fruit and Vegetable Rhymes Little Benjamin Puss in Boots Goody Two Shoes Folk Hero Paul Bunyan Halloween Stories for Children: A Tale for Halloween The Pumpkin Glory Mary E.
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Tales for children of the younger group
Fairy tales for the younger group - the most complete collection of works recommended for children to read to children of the first and second younger groups of kindergarten. The youngest listeners will meet forest animals, domestic animals, adults and their peers in these stories. They will show the children how the world works around them. Read fairy tales to children for the younger group, if your child is from one to three years old. Together with them, the imagination, thinking and attention of the young listener will grow and develop.
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Russian people's markets at night for children 2 years of children 3 years of children 4 years of 4 years old Grandmother Grandmother Grandmother Grummer
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Russian folk storiesBedtime storiesAbout animalsAbout the bearFor children 2 years oldFor children 3 years oldFor kidsAbout good and evil About MashaAbout grandmother Junior group
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Russian people's markets at night of a petukhpro Koshkudl Malysolstoy - Russian People's Narodnya schoolchildren of the 1st grade 1 grade group
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Vitaly Biankikorotyo of animals Lisuprushwro Children 3 years of flying 4 years old group 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 2 Gennarovo.
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About a hare Russian folk tales for the night Junior group
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Tales about winter for children. Read online with illustrations.
This section of the site presents fairy tales about winter! For many children, this is a favorite time of the year, when real miracles happen on New Year's Eve, when huge snow flakes fall from the sky and magic is everywhere .
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The Snow Queen is one of Hans Christian Andersen's most famous love stories , which is able to overcome any test and melt even an icy heart! "The Snow Queen" read The first story, which tells about the mirror and its ...
A story about how the Hedgehog before hibernation ask the Rabbit to save him a piece of winter until spring. The rabbit rolled up a large ball of snow, wrapped it in leaves and hid it in his hole. “About the Hedgehog and the Rabbit: A Piece…
By the Pike’s Command — a Russian folk tale about the lazy fool Emelya and the magic pike, which revealed to him the secret of fulfilling all desires… (Recorded in the village of Shadrino, Gorky region, from I.F. Kovalev) At the command of a pike to read In one ...
1-2 grade The Fox and the Wolf - a fairy tale about a cunning fox who was able to outwit both grandfather and wolf. Winged phrases from the fairy tale are still used in speech: “Cold, freeze, wolf tail!”, “The beaten unbeaten one is lucky.
” Fox and wolf…
Snegurochka (Snegurushka) is a Russian folk tale about a girl fashioned by a grandfather and a woman out of snow… On our website you can find two versions of this folk tale. Snegurochka read Once upon a time there was an old man and an old woman. Lived well, together ....
Grade 2Tale about a duck named Gray Sheika. Once a fox hurt her wing, and the bird could not fly with her family to warmer climes. Gray Sheika wandered into the forest, where she met a bunny. He warned her...
A sad tale about a poor girl who had neither a home nor clothes. And there were only matches that she burned one by one to keep warm on New Year's Eve. While the flame was burning, the girl was transferred to different…
The widely known Russian folk tale Morozko tells about an evil and treacherous stepmother who sent her stepdaughter to the forest to certain death. However, the girl did not die, but returned home with generous gifts ... There is a fairy tale on our website .
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New Year's story about how children made a snowman and sent him to the forest to Santa Claus for a Christmas tree ... Christmas tree read This morning the guys looked at the calendar , and there the last leaf remained. Tomorrow is the New Year! Tomorrow…
This is a short fairy tale about a clever bunny, which even the fierce Frost could not overcome and gave him a white fur coat. Frost and a hare to read Frost and a hare met somehow in the forest. Frost boasted: — I am the strongest in…
Grade 2The winter hut of animals is a fairy tale about a hard-working bull who single-handedly built a warm house and let freezing animals into it: a ram, a pig, a goose and a rooster. The rooster got warm, began to sing songs, but then the fox heard him and ...
1-2 class Two Frosts - a fairy tale that work can warm much better than the warmest fur coat ... (in the retelling of M.L. Mikhailov) Two Frosts read Two Frosts, two siblings, walked across the open field, from foot to foot .
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A tale about two sisters who, one by one, fall into the possession of Lady Snowstorm. The kind and diligent sister dropped the spindle into the well. Jumping after him, the girl found herself in a magical world ruled by Mrs. Blizzard - terrible in appearance, ...
A short tale about a stupid mouse and a hungry ferret ... Mouse read A mouse runs through the pure snow, behind the mouse there is a path where paws stepped in the snow. The mouse does not think anything, because in her head the brain - ...
Grade 3The tale of two girls - Needlewoman and Sloth, who lived with a nanny. Once the Needlewoman dropped a bucket into the well, climbed after it and ended up in the realm of Moroz Ivanovich. She lived with her grandfather for three days, completed everything ...
A story in which various animals talk about winter. After all, it is so different for an elephant, for a deer or a bear! What kind of winter is read They once asked the Elephant: - What is winter like? - And what is it? — surprised…
A short tale about a violet that found itself alone in the ice.
The animals marveled at the unusual phenomenon for them. And the violet decided to melt all the ice alone, but she did not have enough strength ... Violet at the North Pole read One morning ...
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale Snowman teaches not to waste precious time of your life on meaningless deeds and stupid dreams. The life of a snowman was very short. And he spent it on dreams of fire, which is destructive to ...
Far to the north, somewhere in the Arkhangelsk or Vologda region, there is an invisible village of Dedmorozovka. In this village, Father Frost, his granddaughter Snegurochka, as well as their helpers, snowmen and snowmen, spend most of the year. In the first…
Icicles
Plyatskovsky M.S.
for children 4-5-6 years old about winter
1 min.
4.65 (489)
A short story about a sparrow giving advice to frustrated icicles. Icicles to read - Hey, ice icicles, why are you crying? asked the curious Sparrow, who was in a great mood.
“We are crying out of fear,” the icicles answered….
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Wives in the mirror
Chinese fairy tale
In a small village there lived a mother with two sons, extremely smart and reasonable. They just didn't want to get married. And then one day at midnight, the mother came out of the house, looked at the starry sky and said: “Children ...
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Fearless Giovannino
Italian fairy tale
A fairy tale about the fearless guy Giovannino, who decided to spend the night in a castle from which no one had ever left alive in the morning. Giovanino not only survived, but also became rich. "Fearless Giovannino" read Once upon a time there was one guy ....
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The Orange Princess
Italian fairy tale
A fairy tale about a prince who could not choose a princess for himself, they all seemed ugly to him.
And so he sat on a good horse and rode around the world to look for a bride for himself ... "Princess of Orange" read Once upon a time there was a prince in the world, ... -
Parsley
Italian fairy tale
Once upon a time there was a husband and wife. When the wife was expecting a child, she really wanted parsley and she tore it in the witches' garden. For this, the sorceresses ordered to give them the child when he grows up ... "Petrushechka" read Once upon a time there was a husband and ...
A story about how a goose and her goslings got into a polynya on the Yenisei. The hero of the story and his friends saved the geese from death, they risked themselves. "Geese in the polynya" read Freezing on the Yenisei comes gradually. First…
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The smell of hay
Astafiev V.P.
Two boys, cousins, are eager to help their grandfather and uncle bring hay from distant mowing.
However, they are not taken with them, the road is hard, the work is difficult. But in the evening, when the hay is already in the yard, the guys are eager and ... -
Autumn sorrows and joys
Autumn is a hot time. It is necessary to collect and prepare the entire crop. A story about how a large amount of cabbage is salted for the winter in one of the Siberian villages. It is in some way a mystical and interesting ritual and process….
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A photograph where I am not present
Astafiev V.P.
A story about true friendship, sincere love for the native land and shows what a real teacher should be like. It is important to remember those who were with you as a child. These people can be an important part of your life. And together…
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Russian women
Nekrasov N.A.
Contents: ♦ I. Princess Trubetskaya ♦ Part one ♦ Part two ♦ Princess M.
N. Volkonskaya ♦ Chapter I ♦ Chapter II ♦ Chapter III ♦ Chapter IV… -
Tam Glen
Burns R.
Oh, aunt, I ask for advice! With such a young man, I don’t have to be afraid of the fate of change. I’ll be glad of poverty, If only I would be with me…
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Lines about war and love
Burns R. I give my blood In that life-creating battle, What we call love. I glorify the triumph of the world, Contentment and prosperity. It is more pleasant to create one Than to destroy a dozen!
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What's a girl to do
Burns R.
What's a girl to do? What shall I do, little girl? How shall I, little girl, live with my hubby? He is grouchy and sick, always dissatisfied. There is cold in his chest, ice in his hands. He grunts, ...
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has analogues in the tales of many other peoples. Our site presents a version of a folk tale in the processing of A.
N. Tolstoy. "Kolobok" read Once upon a time there was an old man with an old woman. Here ... -
2 - Little Red Riding Hood
Charles Perrault
A short story about a trusting girl and a cunning gray wolf. Disobeying her mother, the girl turns off the road and talks to a stranger - a gray wolf ... "Little Red Riding Hood" read Once upon a time there was a little girl. Her mother loved her without memory, and her grandmother…
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3 - Three Little Pigs
Mikhalkov S.
A fairy tale about three brothers-pigs who built houses for themselves. One brother built a house out of straw, another out of twigs and twigs, and a third out of bricks. "Three Little Pigs" read Once upon a time there were three little pigs in the world. Three brothers. All…
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4 - Turnip
Russian folk tale
The turnip is a famous fairy tale for the little ones with a lot of repetitions.
The child quickly remembers the sequence of presentation and a simple plot. "Turnip" read Grandfather planted a turnip and says: - Grow a turnip, sweet, sweet! Grow big, big! A turnip has grown, sweet and big, big…. -
5 - Bremen town musicians
Entin Yu.S. and Livanov V.B.
The story of the animals and the young Troubadour who went to the city of Bremen to become street musicians. In the city they stopped in front of the royal castle. The king and princess came out onto the balcony of the palace, the townspeople ran to the square and it began ...
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6 - Wolf and seven kids
Russian folk tale
The story tells about an evil wolf who changed his voice, made his way into the goat's house and ate little kids. But the mother goat will be able to save her children and get rid of the wolf. "The Wolf and the Seven Kids" read Once upon a time there was a goat with kids .
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7 - The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Pushkin A.S.
The tale of Tsar Saltan, of his son, the glorious and mighty hero Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the beautiful Swan Princess was created on the basis of the folk tale "Wonderful Sons". Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin enriched the folk work with new plot twists, ...
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8 - Flower of seven flowers
Kataev V.P.
A fairy tale about a girl Zhenya, who was presented with a magic seven-flower flower. It had seven petals and could grant any seven wishes. Zhenya spent the first six wishes, but did not get any pleasure and only made her last wish ...
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9 - The Snow Queen test and melt even an icy heart! "The Snow Queen" read Table of contents: ♦ The first story, which tells about ...0003
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10 - Three Bears
Russian folk tale
Three Bears is a fairy tale about a girl who got lost in the forest and ended up in a house of bears.
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11 - Geese-swans
the swan geese carried the boy away and the little sister went to look for him. The stove, apple tree and river helped the girl save her brother. Read the fairy tale in the processing of A.N. Tolstoy. "Geese-swans" read There lived a man and a woman. At… -
12 - Wizard of the Emerald City
Volkov A.M.
"The Wizard of the Emerald City" - a fairy tale story by Alexander Volkov written in 1939 based on the fairy tale "The Wise Man of Oz" by American writer Frank Baum with some changes. In 1959, a new edition of the book was published, significantly revised ...
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13 - The Frog Princess
Russian folk tale
The Frog Princess is a Russian folk tale where the main character, Ivan Tsarevich, married a frog by the will of fate.
Ivan had no idea that his wife was Vasilisa the Wise, turned by Koshchei into a frog. Ivan hurried, burned the frog skin and had to ... -
14 - The Fox and the Crane
Russian folk tale
The Fox and the Crane is a fairy tale about friendship between a cunning fox and a clever crane. The crane could not eat the semolina porridge, which the Fox smeared on a plate. He invited her to his place and treated her to a delicious okroshka, which he put down…
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15 - Winnie the Pooh and everything
Alan Milne
A cheerful and beloved fairy tale about Winnie the Pooh does not obey the laws of the fairy tale genre. The tale is devoid of negative characters, the struggle between good and evil forces. The main characters of the tale are the toys of the boy Christopher, with whom funny situations happen in a magical ...
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16 - Masha and the Bear
Russian folk tale
Masha and the Bear is a fairy tale about a girl who got lost in the forest and ended up in a bear's hut.
The bear did not let Mashenka go home, however, the girl came up with a way to return to her grandparents. Masha and ... -
17 - The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
Pushkin A.S.
The tale of a poor fisherman who caught a golden fish in his net. The old man took pity on the fish, released it into the sea. For this, the fish promised to fulfill his every wish. The old man didn’t ask for anything, but when he returned home, he told about…
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18 - Hen Ryaba
Russian folk tale
Hen Ryaba is the first fairy tale-parable that mothers read to their babies. Children quickly grasp a simple plot and remember it by heart. Hen Ryaba read Once upon a time there was a grandfather and a woman. And they had a Ryaba Hen. The hen laid an egg, yes…
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19 - The Little Mermaid
Hans Christian Andersen
A touching tale about the Little Mermaid's strong love for the prince.
The little mermaid is ready to give up everything that is dear to her for the sake of the human soul and the love of the prince ... The fairy tale formed the basis of the plots of many films, cartoons and musicals. Little Mermaid read In the open… -
20 - Thumbelina
Hans Christian Andersen
The fairy tale about Thumbelina is loved by children all over the world. A tiny girl born from a flower goes through many trials on the way to her happiness. Fate rewards Thumbelina for her kind heart. The swallow, which she saved earlier, endures…
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21 - Puss in Boots
Charles Perrault
The tale of an unusual cat, which was inherited by the younger brother from the miller's father. The young man was not very happy at first with his share of the inheritance, but the cunning and intelligent cat made him the richest man and son-in-law of the king ... The cat in ...
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22 - Sleeping Beauty
Charles Perrault
A fairy tale about a beautiful princess who was cursed by an offended fairy at a celebration in honor of her birth.
The old fairy predicted the girl's death from a spindle prick, but the good fairy was able to commute the sentence. The girl did not die, but fell asleep on… -
23 - Porridge from an ax
Russian folk tale
Porridge from an ax is a small fairy tale about a witty soldier. The greedy old woman did not want to feed the soldier, but he outwitted her and got porridge with butter ... Read porridge from an ax The old soldier went on a visit. Tired in…
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24 - The ugly duckling
Hans Christian Andersen
A fairy tale about the miraculous transformation of an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. The duckling was born unlike his brothers, the inhabitants of the poultry yard disliked him for his dissimilarity to the others. The duckling had to leave the house and go through many trials before he…
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25 - The Princess and the Pea
Hans Christian Andersen
A short story about how the prince wanted to marry a real princess.
One day, a girl knocked on the gate, who was soaked to the skin, but assured that she was a real princess. She was allowed to sleep, and the old queen gave her a check…… -
26 - Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka
Russian folk tale
Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka is a fairy tale about how the younger brother disobeyed his sister, got drunk from a hoof and turned into a goat kid to read ... Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka lived to read ... - there was an old man and an old woman, they had ...
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27 - Fear has big eyes
Russian folk tale
Fear has big eyes - a short fairy tale about the fact that from fear you can see what was not really ... ( from the collection of M.M. Serova) Fear has big eyes to read Once upon a time there was an old grandmother, a laughing granddaughter, a chicken-klokhtushka and a mouse-leaf. Each…
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28 - Bean seed
Russian folk tale
The cockerel and the bean seed is a Russian folk tale about a rooster who was always in a hurry when he pecked at the seeds.
The hen warned him all the time and asked him to peck more slowly. One day he choked on a bean seed and fell down. But the chicken... -
29 - Sivka Burka
Russian folk tale
Sivka-Burka is a fairy tale about the adventures of Ivan the Fool and his gallant horse. Sivka Burka read The old man had three sons: two smart ones, and the third Ivanushka the Fool; day and night the fool is lying on the stove. The old man sowed wheat, and it grew ...
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30 - Baba Yaga
Russian folk tale
A fairy tale about a girl who was able to get out of the clutches of Baba Yaga, thanks to the advice of her own aunt and a kind cat ... Baba Yaga read Once upon a time there was a husband and wife, and they had a daughter. The wife fell ill and died. Grieved, grieved…
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31 - Crocodile Gena and his friends
Uspensky E.N.
Tale about a lonely crocodile Gena.
Coming home from work from the zoo, he was left alone and bored. Crocodile Gena decided to make friends with someone. He wrote an ad that he was looking for friends, hung them around the city and ... -
32 - Teremok
Russian folk audio tale
Listen to the Russian folk tale "Teremok" online on the Mishkina Books website!
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33 - Twelve months
Samuel Marshak
Do you know how many months there are in a year? - Twelve. And what are their names? — January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. As soon as one month ends, another immediately begins. And…
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34 - The tale of the priest and his worker Balda
Pushkin A.S.
The tale of the stingy priest and resourceful worker Balda. Somehow Balda was hired for the service for three clicks on the forehead of the priest.
When the time of reckoning was approaching, the priest decided to give Balda an impossible task in order to get rid of him. But Balda… -
35 - Little Humpbacked Horse
Ershov P.
An old man lived in a village and had three sons. They grew wheat and sold it in the market. But then someone got into the habit of trampling wheat in the field at night ... Table of contents: ♦ Part one. Starting…
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36 - Alice in Wonderland
Carroll L.
An exciting story about a girl Alice who met a talking White Rabbit and ended up in amazing worlds where she met very unusual characters ... Chapter 1. Down the rabbit hole Alice got bored of sitting with his sister on the shore…
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37 - The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A fairy tale about how a pilot, who remained a child at heart, met the Little Prince in the desert, who arrived from another planet.
